Gender
Poem Analysis
Act 5
100

The person Rosalind disguises herself as

Who is Ganymede?

100

The person directly addressed in "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love"

Who is His Lover/The Shepard's Lover?

100

The purpose of Act 5 as a whole in reference to all previous conflicts (including Rosalind messing with Orlando, Orlando's and Oliver's feud, and Duke Frederick's tyrannical rule)

What is to end all previous conflicts?

200

The character that falls in love with Rosalind's female persona

Who is Phebe?

200

The primary setting of the "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love"

What is the peaceful countryside?

200

The way in which Shakespeare concludes "As You Like It" in order to remove confusion about gender norms

What are 4 traditional marriages?

300

A characteristic of Orlando through his behavior in the forest that contrasts traditional masculinity

What is being passive/overwhelmed with romantic emotions?

300

The speaker’s list of promises in stanzas 3–5 ("beds of roses," "gold buckles," "amber studs") primarily serves to characterize him as...

A) a practical laborer who understands the financial needs of a household.
B) a disillusioned youth seeking to escape the constraints of city life.
C) an idealistic suitor who equates romantic devotion with material and aesthetic abundance.
D) a cynical manipulator who views the natural world as a source of profit.
E) a religious hermit who sees the beauty of nature as a path to spiritual enlightenment.


What is Option C ("an idealistic suitor who equates romantic devotion with material and aesthetic abundance")?

300

The mythological figure that appears to bless the weddings

Who is Hymen/the Greek God of Marriage?

400

The effect the Forest of Arden has on traditional gender norms

What is providing a setting away from society where characters can bypass traditional gender norms? (examples include Rosalind disguising as a man and Orlando being very emotional)

400

The rhyming scheme and meter of "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love"

What is iambic tetrameter?

400

The conflict between the Forest of Arden and The Court

What is the "freedom" of the forest verse the traditional "order" of the Court?